Adulthood, Meditation
Self-compassion: I loosely define self-compassion as caring about myself at least as tenderly as I care for my friend or my dog or my houseplant. (I have one. It’s a red one. That’s all I know about it. I don’t care very much about it. But at...
Meditation
What? Why?Meditation is mental exercise. There’s basically no wrong way to exercise. If you’re moving, it’s probably just fine! The important thing is that you do it because everyone needs to exercise. And almost 0% of the population...
Meditation
Click here to download a guided meditation of the 7 homecomings. I no longer use this particular recording, and I don’t mean to promote it, except as an example of one of the ways to walk through the 7 homecomings. A campfire is lit just after sunset, and about...
Meditation
10:30pm. My wife stood naked in front of me, offering herself. I was at least self-aware enough to be honest, “No thanks. I’d rather not be accepted right now.” A voice from the past had recently re-entered my home. It was innocuous on the surface,...